Richard Tice accepted stay at French Riviera home of Tory donor Reform deputy leader’s trip, worth £1,4000, to Lubov Chernukhin’s property was for ‘discussing gas power in UK’ The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2025
Tory donor’s Hastings ‘fun factory’ closes abruptly after £150,000 grant Lubov Chernukhin’s amusement centre, which received money from levelling up fund, shuts doors after less than a year The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2023
Top 10 Tory donors since Rishi Sunak became prime minister Exclusive: An astonishing four-fifths of all individual donations made to the Conservative Party since Mr Sunak entered Downing Street have come from just 10 wealthy people The Independent UK · Sep 2, 2023
Labour urges Tories to hand back £5m donation from Mohamed Mansour Anneliese Dodds questions why it took so long for one of the Conservative senior treasurer’s firms to sever its Russia links The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2023
Russian ex-minister got UK visa after now-sanctioned oligarch fixed up job Vladimir Chernukhin, President Putin’s former deputy finance minister, claimed in a court case that he obtained a UK work visa - and eventually British citizenship - because oligarch Oleg Deripaska arranged a job for him in this country Daily Mirror · Mar 26, 2022
Russian-born husband of Tory donor ‘earned millions via oligarch connections’ Vladimir Chernukhin’s wife, Lubov, has given Conservatives more than £2m The Guardian - UK · Mar 26, 2022
Boris Johnson rejects call to give Tory donation from Russian banker to Ukraine causes The prime minister was pressed about donations from Lubov Chernukhin, wife of a former minister in Vladimir Putin’s government The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2022
Give Russian-linked donations to Ukrainian charities, Labour MP tells PM Lubov Chernukhin, whose husband was Russia’s deputy finance minister, donated £80,250 to the Conservatives at the end of 2021, new data shows. The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2022
Tories pocket £80,000 from Russian-born banker just months before invasion of Ukraine Lubov Chernukhin, whose husband Vladimir served as deputy finance minister to President Putin before coming to the UK, made two donations of £13,750 in October and £66,500 in December last year Daily Mirror · Mar 2, 2022